Infield Fly

[CecilOne]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Nope. You think an infielder cannot throw the ball 60-70 feet quicker than the runners can cover the same distance?

The primary point to this call is that it is a routine play for the infielder.

Nope, the rule has been as it is for decades and there is no valid reason to change it other than to enable the inept.

What about a SS coming from a deep position or playing in to cutoff a run, making an amazing grab with back to the plate, right at 2nd base.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by CecilOne

What about a SS coming from a deep position or playing in to cutoff a run, making an amazing grab with back to the plate, right at 2nd base.

What....

When, exactly, are you calling IFF? How could you possibly know he was going to make an amazing grab near 2B? You call IFF at it's apex --- all the rest of that is after the fact.

(And if he caught it ... who gives a flying flip whether we called IFF or not ... it's a caught fly ball. Are you arguing just to argue now?)

[CecilOne]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

Are you arguing just to argue now?

No, I don't do that, but I will try to re-do more succinctly.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Y'all trying to find issue where there is none.

If you look for boogers, try that cavern just above you upper lip.

Otherwise you are only asking for trouble on the fielder.

Either way, you may end up eating it

[teebob21]

Originally Posted by CecilOne

What about a SS coming from a deep position or playing in to cutoff a run, making an amazing grab with back to the plate, right at 2nd base.

That doesn't sound like ordinary effort.

[Andy]

It is the umpire's judgement on whether a defensive player is an infielder or an outfielder. The positioning is especially important in Co-ed slow pitch where the rules state the number and gender of infielders and outfielders.

The ASA rule book (Rule 1) defines infielder as a fielder that defends the area of the fielder near first base, second base, third base, or shortstop. An outfielder is a fielder that plays where the left fielder, left-center fielder, right-center fielder, and right fielders normally play.

That definition leaves it to the umpire to determine who is an infielder and who is an outfielder. If you have a shortstop playing so deep that you would consider him an outfielder, than he is an outfielder for purposes of the infield fly rule.